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MUD ARRESTER FOR STEAM BOILERS. No. 301,755. Patented July 8, 1884.-

TO'QIZZ whom't't may concern.-

* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

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MUD' -ARRESTER FOR STEAM-BOILERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 301,755, dated July 8,1884.

Application filed February 27, 1884. (No model.)

Be it known that 1,; JosErH C. RIDLEY, of

the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri,

line 2 2, Fig. 1.

have invented acertain new and useful Improvement in Mud-Arresters forSteam-Bod A ers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, and in'which- Figure l is a longitudinalsection of a steamboiler with my improvement applied; and Fig. 2 is atransverse section of same, taken on My present invention relates to anattachment to steamboilers, whereby the mud and a p sediment whichsettles in the front part ofthe "boiler can be removed without and areprevented from getting to the rear or fire end of .the boiler.

My invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter described, andpointed out in the claims.

Referring to the drawings, A represents the fines of an ordinary boiler,which are divided and connected by a chamber, B. These fea- It will thusbe seen that the motion of the train (where the invention is used onlocomotive-boilers) and the washing out of the front end of the boiler,which is effected by water not cause the inudthat settles in the frontend of the boiler to pass to the back end, the strip thoroughlypreventing it. I prefer to extend the strip a little above the top ofthe chamber the chamber, as shown. I

I claim as my invention- 1. The combination of the boiler with dividedfines, chamber, and strip, the strip 10- pose set forth.

2. The combination of the boiler having divided fines, chamber, andstrip of T-iron, the strip, extending entirely around the chamber forthe purpose set forth.

' JOSEPH C. RIDLEY. In presence of- GEO. H. KNIGHT,

SAJML. KNIGHT.

iron and to rivet it to the boiler, as shown. 5

introduced through a pipe, D, as usual, will 40 and to extend it acrossthe boiler at the top of cated at one end of the chamber, for the purandriveted to the boiler, substantially as and

